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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A65306	Paramuthion, or, A word of comfort for the church of God by Thomas Watson ...	Watson, Thomas, d. 1686.	1662 (1662)	Wing W1135A; ESTC R38519	17,807	46

Land Exod. 32. 10. Let me alone that my wrath may wax hot against them Why what did Moses he only pray'd Prayer overcomes the Almighty * Vincit invincibilem Luth. it finds God free but leaves him bound This gives some crevis of hope that God will not wholly leave us there are those that cry day and night Spare thy people O Lord and give not thy heritage to reproach When Prayer leads the Van Deliverance brings up the Rear Psal. 10. 17. Thou wilt prepare their heart thou wilt cause thine ear to hear 3. Another seed of hope is the tender respect God hath to his own glory This was Joshua's Argument Josh. 7. 9. What wilt thou do unto thy great Name If the People of God should be extinct and the cause of Religion trampled under foot this would reflect upon the glory of God and his Name would suffer The wicked seldom prevail but they blaspheme they say Where is your God Psalm 42. 10. Now Gods glory is dear to him it is the most orient Pearl of his Crown he will stand upon his honour while he consults his peoples safety he promotes his own glory Psal. 106. 8. Nevertheless he saved them for his Name sake 4. Another seed of hope is the blessed intercession of Christ The Lord Jesus hears the names of his people upon his breast and sets them as a golden Signet upon his heart his prayers go up to heaven as sweet odors Revel 8. 4. The smoak of incense ascended up before God out of the Angels hand Though out sins go up to heaven as the smoak of a furnace yet Christs prayers go up as the smoak of incense Christs intercession is meritorious his blood will never leave crying till the blood of his enemies be shed 5. A fifth seed of hope is the mercy of God Isa. 63. 9. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them God is the Father of mercies 2 Cor. 1. 3. Mercy doth naturally issue from him He is rich in mercy Ephes. 2. 4. He delighteth in mercy Mic. 7. 18. Justice is Gods strange work Isa 28. 21. Mercy is his proper work Why may not Mercy give the casting-voice And that which may make us hope in this mercy is 1 o. The mercy of God is free Hos. 14. 4. I will love them freely * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysost. Mercy sends out its pardons to whom it will Mercy doth not go by desert but by Prerogative I will love them freely 2 o. The mercy of God is healing Hos. 14. 4. I will heal their back-slidings Mercy can heal the impurity and stubbornness of a people Mercy can as well give repentance as deliverance Mercy can destroy the sins of a Nation and save the Nation It can burn up the Chaff and save the Corn. I will heal their back-slidings Mercy can stop the bloody issue of sin and so make way for the issues from death Psal. 68. 20. Pliny saith the water-courses of Rome are the worlds wonder but behold here a Sacred Water-course of Gods mercy this is a sweet wonder Mercy can overcome a sinful people it can save a Nation in its Climacterical year We read that the fire of the Lord fell and licked up the water 1 Kings 18. 38. Thus the fire of Gods mercy can lick up and devour the water of our sins 6. The last seed of hope for England is That there have been many sins committed in the Nation which are not the sins of the Nation some have perjured themselves but all have not A sober and considerable party in the Land however traduced have entred their dissent and openly protested against the scandalous actings of others so that it is to be hoped the Lord will not impute the sin of some to the whole There are a certain number that said as David 1 Sam. 26. 11. God forbid that I should stretch forth my hand against the Lords anointed They looked upon it as impious and irrational to go to cut off the HEAD to preserve the body Thus I have showed you a Rain-bow in the cloud and given you some probable grounds of hope That the Lord will still be in the midst of England Which I intend as a preservative against despondency not as fuel for security Quest. Quest. But how is it possible there should be any good towards us That the sins in which the Nation hath been so steeped and parboil'd should be forgiven that our divisions and animosities should be healed Gods Ordinances refined and the Lord continue his gracious presence in the midst of us Answ. Answ. I say with our blessed Saviour Luke 18. 27. The things which are unpossible with men are possible with God What cannot that God do that can create God can bring about those things which in the eye of sence are not feasible That Iron should swim that the Rock should be a Spring is in nature impossible but God hath brought this to pass Cannot God untye those knots which do amuse and puzzle us Zach. 8. 6. If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people should it also be marvellous in mine eyes saith the Lord of hosts Can difficulties pose the Almighty Jer. 32 27. Is there any thing too hard for me Did not he make the dry bones live Ezek. 37. 7 8. God can bring light out of darkness * 2 Cor. 4 6. harmony out of confusion he can do more than we can think * Eph. 3. 20. else he should not be God How apt are Gods own people to be discouraged with seeming impossibilities Moses who was one of the brighest Stars that ever shined in the Churches Orb yet ready to hesitate and sink at seeming impossibilities Numb 11. ●1 The people amongst whom I am are six hundred thousand footmen and thou hast said I will give them flesh that they may eat a whole month shall the flocks and the heards be slain for them to suffice them or shall all the fish of the Sea be gathered together for them to suffice them As if Moses had said in plain English he did not see how such a numerous people could be fed for a month God gives him a kind of check for his infidelity vers 23. Is the Lords hand waxed short Do I find mouths and not meat Cannot I make provision for my houshold Is the Lords hand waxed short That God who brought Isaac out of a dead womb and the Messiah out of a Virgins womb what cannot he do * 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chrysostom When things act never so irregularly God can put them in joint again When his Church is so low that she seems to be in the Grave and have a Tombstone laid upon her he can in an instant cause a glorious resurrection Therefore let us not be out of heart but still rest on the arm of Gods power and Soveraignty remembring there are no desperate Cases with God To conclude all the Lord may let his Church be a while under hatches to punish her security and awaken her out of her slumbering fits yet surely the storm will not continue long The Church shall not dye in travel but God will manifest that he is in the midst of Zion and after his Church hath suffered a while as her head Christ hath done he will cause the morning star of her Salvation to appear and she shall come out of all her troubles as the wings of a Dove covered with silver and her feathers with yellow gold FINIS